Английская Википедия:Angstrom
Шаблон:Other uses Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox unit The angstrom[1][2][3][4] (Шаблон:IPAc-en;[3][5][6] Шаблон:Respell[5]) or ångström (Шаблон:IPAc-en)[7][1][8][9][10] is a metric unit of length equal to Шаблон:Val m; that is, one ten-billionth (US) of a metre, a hundred-millionth of a centimetre,[11] 0.1 nanometre, or 100 picometres. Its symbol is Å, a letter of the Swedish alphabet. The unit is named after the Swedish physicist Anders Jonas Ångström (1814–1874).[11]
The angstrom is often used in the natural sciences and technology to express sizes of atoms, molecules, microscopic biological structures, and lengths of chemical bonds, arrangement of atoms in crystals,[12][13] wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation, and dimensions of integrated circuit parts. The atomic (covalent) radii of phosphorus, sulfur, and chlorine are about 1 angstrom, while that of hydrogen is about 0.5 angstroms. Visible light has wavelengths in the range of 4000–7000 Å.
In the late 19th century, spectroscopists adopted Шаблон:Val of a metre as a convenient unit to express the wavelengths of characteristic spectral lines (monochromatic components of the emission spectrum) of chemical elements. However, they soon realized that the definition of the metre at the time, based on a material artifact, was not accurate enough for their work. So, around 1907 they defined their own unit of length, which they called "Ångström", based on the wavelength of a specific spectral line.[11] It was only in 1960, when the metre was redefined in the same way, that the angstrom became again equal to Шаблон:Val metre.
Even though it is a decimal power fraction of the metre, the angstrom was never part of the SI system of units,[14][15] and it has been increasingly replaced by the nanometre or picometre. Up to 2019, it was listed as a compatible unit by both the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),[9][10] but it is not mentioned in the 9th edition of the official SI document, the "BIPM Brochure" (2019)[14] or in the NIST version of the same.[15]
The 8th edition of the BIPM brochure (2006)[9] and the NIST guide 811 (2008)[10] used the spelling ångström, with Swedish letters; however, this form is rare in English texts. Some popular US dictionaries list only the spelling angstrom.[2][3]
The accepted symbol is "Å", no matter how the unit is spelled.[1][4][3] However, "A" is often used in less formal contexts or typographically limited media.Шаблон:Citation needed
History
In 1868, Swedish physicist Anders Jonas Ångström created a chart of the spectrum of sunlight, in which he expressed the wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation in the electromagnetic spectrum in multiples of one ten-millionth of a millimetre (or Шаблон:Val.)[16][17] Ångström's chart and table of wavelengths in the solar spectrum became widely used in solar physics community, which adopted the unit and named it after him.Шаблон:Citation needed It subsequently spread to the fields of astronomical spectroscopy, atomic spectroscopy, and then to other sciences that deal with atomic-scale structures.
Although intended to correspond to Шаблон:Val metres, that definition was not accurate enough for spectroscopy work. Until 1960 the metre was defined as the distance between two scratches on a bar of platinum-iridium alloy, kept at the BIPM in Paris in a carefully controlled environment. Reliance on that material standard had led to an early error of about one part in 6000 in the tabulated wavelengths. Ångström took the precaution of having the standard bar he used checked against a standard in Paris, but the metrologist Henri Tresca reported it to be so incorrect that Ångström's corrected results were more in error than the uncorrected ones.[18]
In 1892–1895, Albert A. Michelson and Jean-René Benoît, working at the BIPM with specially developed equipment, determined that the length of the international metre standard was equal to Шаблон:Gaps times the wavelength of the red line of the emission spectrum of electrically excited cadmium vapor.[19] In 1907, the International Union for Cooperation in Solar Research (which later became the International Astronomical Union) defined the international angstrom as precisely 1/6438.4696 of the wavelength of that line (in dry air at 15 °C (hydrogen scale) and 760 mmHg under a gravity of 9.8067 m/s2).[20]
This definition was endorsed at the 7th General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) in 1927,Шаблон:Citation needed but the material definition of the metre was retained until 1960.[21] From 1927 to 1960, the angstrom remained a secondary unit of length for use in spectroscopy, defined separately from the metre.Шаблон:Citation needed In 1960, the metre itself was redefined in spectroscopic terms, which allowed the angstrom to be redefined as being exactly 0.1 nanometres.Шаблон:Citation needed
Although still widely used in physics and chemistry, the angstrom is not a formal part of the International System of Units (SI). The closest SI unit is the nanometre (Шаблон:Val). The International Committee for Weights and Measures officially discouraged its use, and does not even mention it in the 9th edition of the official standard (2019). The angstrom is also not included in the European Union's catalogue of units of measure that may be used within its internal market.[22]
Angstrom star
After the redefinition of the meter in spectroscopic terms, the Angstrom was formally redefined to be 0.1 nanometers. However, there was briefly thought to be a need for a separate unit of comparable size defined directly in terms of spectroscopy. In 1965, J.A. Bearden defined the Angstrom Star (symbol: Å*) as 0.202901 times the wavelength of the tungsten <math display="inline>\kappa_{\alpha 1}</math> line.[23][24] This auxiliary unit was intended to be accurate to within 5 parts per million of the version derived from the new meter. Within ten years, the unit had been deemed both insufficiently accurate (with accuracies closer to 15 parts per million) and obsolete due to higher precision measuring equipment.[25]
Symbol
For compatibility reasons, Unicode includes the formal symbol Шаблон:Unichar (HTML entity Å, Å, or Å), which is deprecated.[26] The angstrom sign is normalized into Шаблон:Unichar (HTML entity Å, Å, or Å).[27] The Unicode consortium recommends to use the latter.[26]
Before digital typesetting, the angstrom (or angstrom unit) was sometimes written as "A.U.". This use is evident in Bragg's paper on the structure of ice,[28] which gives the c- and a-axis lattice constants as 4.52 A.U. and 7.34 A.U., respectively. Ambiguously, the abbreviation "a.u." may also refer to the atomic unit of length, the bohr—about 0.53 Å—or the much larger astronomical unit (about Шаблон:Val).[29][30][31]
Its symbol is Å, a separate letter of the Swedish alphabet not a Roman letter with an additional circle added. The unit is named after the Swedish physicist Anders Jonas Ångström (1814–1874).[11]
See also
- Шаблон:Section link (for objects on this scale)
- Conversion of units
- X unit
References
External links
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 3,2 3,3 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 4,0 4,1 Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language. Portland House, 1989
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- ↑ 9,0 9,1 9,2 Шаблон:SIBrochure8th
- ↑ 10,0 10,1 10,2 Ambler Thompson and Barry N. Taylor (2009): "B.8 Factors for Units Listed Alphabetically". NIST Guide to the SI, National Institutes of Standards and Technology. Accessed on 2019-03-02
- ↑ 11,0 11,1 11,2 11,3 Entry "angstrom" in the Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1986). Retrieved on 2021-11-22 from https://www.oed.com/oed2/00008552 Шаблон:Webarchive.
- ↑ Arturas Vailionis (2015): "Geometry of Crystals" Lecture slides for MatSci162_172, Geometry; Stanford University. archived on 2015-03-19
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- ↑ 14,0 14,1 Bureau international des poids et measures (2019): Le système international d'unités, complete brochure, 9th edition.
- ↑ 15,0 15,1 NIST (2019): Special Publication 330: The International System of Units (SI) 2019 Edition.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book The 1869 edition (printed by Ferdinand Dümmler in Berlin) contains sketches of the solar spectrum.
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- ↑ Шаблон:Cite journal From p. 85, translated: "... the final conclusion of this work is that the fundamental unit of the metric system is represented by the following numbers of wavelengths of three emissions of cadmium, in air at 15 °C and at a pressure of 760 mm: Red emission … 1 m = Шаблон:Gaps ... It follows that the wavelengths of these emissions, always at 15 °C and at 760 mm, are (averages of three determinations): λR = Шаблон:Gaps" (where [1 μ = Шаблон:Val]"
- ↑ Benoît, Jean-René; Fabry, Charles; and Pérot, Alfred; « Nouvelle Détermination du mètre en longueurs d'ondes lumineuses » ["A New Determination of the Metre in Terms of the Wave-length of Light"], Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, vol. 144, 21 May 1907, p. 1082-1086
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- ↑ J. A. Bearden. Selection of the W Kα₁ as the X-Ray Wavelength Standard. Physical Review 2nd series, volume 137, no. 2B, pages 455B – B461 (1965).
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- ↑ 26,0 26,1 The Unicode Standard 14, Chapter 22.2 Letterlike Symbols, p. 839
- ↑ The Unicode Consortium (2008): The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0 Chapter "Symbols". Шаблон:Isbn
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